Tom Ustanik - Lansing Cleaners
Lansing Cleaners, is a small family owned business located in Lansing, IL a Chicago suburb. They are a two time IL Governor's Pollution Prevention Award winner. Tom will talk about Lansing Cleaner's pollution prevention activities and how it has benefitted his business.

Ford Motor Company, the City of Chicago, WMRC and other government and affected interest groups are working towards building an industrial park in Chicago which supports the manufacture of Ford's vehicles. The program involves locating suppliers, as well as support services within close proximity to the auto manufacturing plant. Currently the project is addressing issues such as utility optimization issues as well as site management needs.

This is a unique concept that no auto manufacturer in the world has implemented and want to use this as a model for future manufacturing. Manufacturing will be based on the "just in time" concept with material continuously flowing through the supplier's facility straight through to the Ford plant avoiding most inventory warehousing needs, etc. Ford envisions the final production process will involve parts coming from a supplier will be on a car by the end of the day.

Suzanne Malec - City of Chicago Department of Environment (DOE)
Chicago Ford Industrial Park Initiative Overview and The City of Chicago is addressing the broader issues such as zoning, landscaping, drainage, and restoration of a stream to encourage an environmentally site plan. The IL DOT is working with the City of Chicago to address transportation infrastructure planning. Ms. Malek has been invited to present a summary of City of Chicago's Role in the program (zoning, planning, coordination, etc.)

Tim Lindsey - Illinois Waste Management & Research Center (WMRC)
WMRC's role in the program consists of working with 10 of Ford's suppliers to work with them to incorporate P2 & industrial ecology at the design stage. Dr. Lindsey will present a summary of technical assistance initiatives, obstacles, and lessons learned so far associated with this Chicago Ford Industrial Park Initiative.

March 6th

7:00am-8:00am

Registration/Continental Breakfast

8:00am-9:30am

Concurrent Breakout Sessions:

Session 1 Technology/Technical Assistance Partnerships

Moderator: Karen Teliha - IDEM

Tim Lindsey - WMRC
Dr. Lindsey will present an overview of Industry-State Technical Assistance Agency partnerships to reduce waste. This presentation will focus on partnership where the two agencies work together to manage use of chemicals and reduce dumping of chemicals. It will feature WMRC's work with General Motor's Allison transmission facility in Indianapolis, IN and Haas TCM.

Dennis Hockney - Superintendent, Antioch School System, Antioch, IL
Bill Ahlers - Business Manager, Antioch School System, Antioch, IL
Antioch school is in the process of building a new school building. The building is located near the closed Waste Management landfill. The school has elected to spend the extra funds to provide alternative energy to the school by capturing landfill gasses from the nearby landfill. The school is also investigating the restoration of a drained wetland currently located on school owned property. Both programs are used to educate students on environment. Mr. Hockney will discuss the scope and benefits of the alternative energy program. See http://www.glrppr.org/news/glstory.cfm?newsid=261

Patt Decker - Indian Prairie School District (Naperville/Aurora).
Becky thinks she could also get the teacher to speak. Patt Decker is the energy manager for her district. She's done some day lighting projects, and she has a good energy efficiency program. A lot of her first successes were with behavior modification of staff, faculty and students. She saved about $1.5 million her first year with behavior modification only.

Marc Albertin - Olympia School District (consolidated district of farm communities west of Bloomington)
Marc is the O&M Director for his district. He's doing quite a bit of energy efficiency stuff. Also, they've had some IAQ issues also. His district also uses the classroom to run the school recycling program and toner cartridge recycling. They've incorporated grant writing into an English class.

Mark Stone, DDS - Naval Dental Research Institute
Dr. Stone will discuss the dental mercury capture equipment and alternative materials research the institute engaged in. Additionally he will discuss the implementation of these technologies at various facilities throughout the US, including the U.S. Navy dental clinics.

Session 1 - Environmental Management Systems Resources and The Move Away from End of Pipe Limits

Moderator - Emma Lou George - U.S. EPA ORD

Marilou Martin - EPA Region 5
Ms. Martin will present the new Environmental Management System (EMS) direction the Agency is taking. Included will be the new version of Strategic Goals Initiative, Pollution Prevention, Design for Environment, and the latest development in Sustainable Economics, as the new direction away from end of pipe discharge regulations and limits.

Ken Barnes - Illinois Waste Management & Research Center (WMRC)
Mr Barnes will provide a summary of the process of how WMRC assists Illinois businesses with EMS and ISO 14000 implementation. He will provide a description of how WMRC works with other organizations such as NIST MEP's, etc. to facilitate relationships with companies interested in EMS or ISO 14000. He will describe the details of what WMRC does for the companies in terms of EMS/ISO assistance and the extended services that they provide, such as identifying P2 projects in the process of doing an EMS/ISO assessment and then providing assistance with implementation of both.

Moderator: Phil Kaplan, U.S. EPA Region 5
Lynn Corson, Indiana Clean Manufacturing Technology and Safe Materials Institute (CMTI)
Dr. Corson will provide an overview of the Persistent Bioaccumlative Toxics (PBT) Profiler software tool developed in cooperation with EPA, The American Chemistry Council, The Chlorine Chemistry Council, The Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association and with the support and contributions of Environmental Defense. The PBT Profiler (available at www.pbtprofiler.net) is a no cost, online PBT screening methodology. The PBT Profiler is a subset of methods included in the P2 Framework, which is an approach to risk screening that incorporates pollution prevention principles in the design and development of chemicals. The objective of the P2 Framework is to inform decision making at early stages of development and promote the selection and application of safer chemicals and processes.

12:15pm-1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm-2:45pm

Plenary Session - Alternative Fuels

Ms. Rodica Baranescu - International Truck and Engine Corp.
Ms. Baranescu has been invited to talk about the research and technology associated with the low emission diesel engines developed by International Truck and Engine Corporation and the use low emission formulated diesel fuel.